Get inspired in Royal Greenwich this International Women’s Day at the council’s free community event on Friday 8 March.
Running from 12 noon to 8pm in General Gordon Square, the event will kick off an exciting calendar of Woolwich Lates events for 2024. The jam-packed day will include arts and lifestyle workshops, sporting activities and live entertainment.
Don’t miss your chance to hop on board the WOW - Women of the World Bus on the last stop of its national tour before its final destination, Buckingham Palace.
Touring as part of the inaugural WOW Girls Festival, the bus takes WOW workshops and activities to all corners of the UK, reaching young people in the heart of their own communities. While in Woolwich, it will welcome local school children and our residents. With a focus on girls, but including all young people, activities are designed to build resilience, wellbeing and good mental health. Inside, you can take part in a creative exploration of gender equality, through play, reading, digital experiences and a recording studio.
What’s on in General Gordon Square
• Get creative with GCDA’s Iranian Women’s craft workshops
• Have a go at boxing with Power Mobile Gym
• Find out more about counselling services available through Mums Aid
• Feel empowered with confidence building workshops from Galeforce Global
• Get inspired to pick up a racket with Abbey Wood Tennis Club
• Meet the Royal Borough of Greenwich Safer Spaces team and learn more about how the council are tackling violence against women and girls
• Access advice and support to improve tour wellbeing with Health Watch Greenwich
• Explore local employment and training opportunities with GLLaB
If you represent a local organisation, you can also show your support by signing our Equality and Equity and Women’s Safety charter: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/equality-equity-charter
As part of the council’s celebrations, we’ll be spotlighting some of the talented women who have won Business Awards across the borough. Follow us @royal_greenwich
Learn more: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/IWD-24
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On the last Friday of every month, you can downward dog in the beautiful surroundings of the Old Royal Naval College’s Painted Hall. The Feel Good Friday yoga event is delivered by experts from Kindred Yoga Studio. The 45-minute Vinyasa Flow classes will allow
you to move your body, clear your mind and start the day with a sense of calm. No previous yoga experience is required. The next sessions are aon 29 March, led by Vanessa Abreu, 26 April, led by Rebecca Bradley, and 31 May, led by Rishin Paonaskar.
The Walt Disney Archives has opened its vault of treasures, showcasing hundreds of extraordinary objects, including many of Disney’s “Crown Jewels” and more than 250 rarely-seen artefacts and works of art, costumes, props and memorabilia. Hosted at London Excel, the experience reopens on 6 March 2024 with 10 imaginatively themed galleries showcasing renowned classics from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Encanto (2021). A visit is sure to add a sprinkle of fairy dust to your day.
Dates: Open from 6 March 2024
Tickets: Adults £24, children £21 –group and VIP tickets available London Excel, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, E16 1XL disney100exhibit.com/london/
Next session: 29 March, 8am-8:45am
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To mark the bicentenary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), the National Maritime Museum has launched a new exhibition.
Women of the RNLI celebrates the vital role that women have played in saving lives at sea, highlighting the work and success of women in a variety of roles throughout the RNLI’s 200year history.
The exhibition will showcase 42 photographs by Jack Lowe, recently acquired by Royal Museums Greenwich. The portraits of women who volunteer for the RNLI
Grab your skates and head to the Main Hall at Deptford Lounge on the third Thursday of every month for a roller disco, complete with vibey lights, a disco playlist and plenty of room to whizz (or stumble) around. All abilities are welcome to join in a relaxed environment. They even take music requests; you just have to email them to: deptfordloungedm@thealbany. org.uk
Next session:
21 March 2024, 7pm
Tickets: Adults £5, concessions £3 Deptford Lounge, 9 Giffin Street, SE8 4RJ www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/ deptford-lounge-roller-disco/
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Whisky Live and Gin Live are back for another year at Woolwich Works’ Fireworks Factory. Whisky Live welcomes enthusiasts and connoisseurs to come together and experience rare whiskies, with Gin Live promising limitededition releases and artisanal gins. Both offer a unique opportunity to sample unlimited whiskies and gins, too. We’ll raise a glass to that.
Dates: 22 March, entry from 3pm, and 23 March, entry from 12pm
Tickets: From £49 The Fireworks Factory, Woolwich Works, SE18 6HD www.woolwich.works/events/ whisky-live
will be displayed alongside their lifeboat station’s corresponding slipway, putting the landscape that these women operate in at the heart of their stories.
Alongside the portraits, the exhibition will include recorded oral histories from some of the sitters featured who share their experiences of life with the RNLI.
Dates: Showing until 1 December 2024
Tickets: Free National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, SE10 9NF www.rmg.co.uk/nationalmaritime-museum
A brand new club is coming to The Library at Deptford Lounge on Mondays – a free LEGO club. Join in the building and creating fun with these little blocks, perfect for family time.
Dates:
Mondays 4pm-5pm
Tickets: Free Deptford Lounge, 9 Giffin Street, SE8 4RJ deptfordlounge.org.uk/whats-on/ event/lego-club/
As part of an ongoing exploration of colour, Ian Davenport has reimagined the entrance stairwell of The Tide
Cascading down to Greenwich Peninsula’s linear park, The Tide has been taken over by drippings of colour.
Turner Prize nominee Ian Davenport has created an immersive river that cascades down The Tide staircase in parallel, candy-coloured stripes. ‘Poured Staircase’ sees a rainbow wash over the steps before forming a swirl-pool as you reach the end.
The Tide is a pedestrian walkway, initially 1km in length, running from Peninsula Square and along the riverside, but will eventually stretch 5km around the whole of Greenwich Peninsula. It’s home to works from world-renowned artists including Allen Jones, Morag Mysercough, Anthony Gormley and no less than six Damien Hirst sculptures. And now Davenport, too.
Famous for his poured paintings and abstract art, ‘Poured Staircase’ is the first site-specific work from Davenport, and it’s brilliantly realised, encouraging visitors to walk and play along the artwork as it flows down this transitional space.
Davenport said: “I have seen my artworks take shape all across the world, in some of the most beautiful locations.
“It’s incredibly exciting to see it now come to life on Greenwich Peninsula, so close to my home and in an area of London I love. I enjoy seeing echoes of the fluid form reflected back in the shape of The Tide, and in the proximity to the river.”
Follow the flow of the colour; you can visit the ‘Poured Staircase’ on The Tide daily from 8am to 11pm.
The Tide, Pier Walk, SE10 0ES www.greenwichpeninsula.co.uk
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The world premiere of the award-winning play ‘No More Mr Nice Guy’, presented by Nouveau Riche, is coming to Broadway Theatre.
This story revolves around Keloughn Douglas, a British-Caribbean music teacher entangled in the complexities of his aspirations for senior leadership, a burning passion for a successful music career, and his yearning to marry the love of his life.
Dates: 6 to 16 March 2024
Tickets: £10-£12
Rushey Green, Catford, SE6 4RU
Greenwich Theatre has signed a long lease with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, securing the future of the south London venue for a further 24 years.
As a registered charity, the theatre has committed to continue its programme of outreach and engagement activities, from work in schools to festival events and subsidised ticket price initiatives, all offered in parallel with a nationally significant programme of inhouse productions, national touring companies, emerging artist support and family theatre.
Artistic Director James Haddrell said: “This marks the culmination of years of work by our
small and incredibly dedicated staff team and represents the latest stage in the development of the company. With the lease in place, we can now look beyond the immediate future and start to make some major long-term plans.”
Councillor Adel Khaireh, Cabinet Member for Equality, Culture and Communities, added: “By hosting spaces where people can laugh and escape to faraway lands through the power of storytelling and creativity, these organisations are crucial to encouraging social cohesion and creating a place where people can connect.”
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In this fast-paced production, ‘Buffy Revamped’ brings you the entire 144 episodes of the hit 90s TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as told through the eyes of the one person who knows it inside out… Spike.
Funny, satirical and bursting with 90s popculture references, it’s the perfect parody for Buffy aficionados and those who never enrolled at Sunnydale High.
Date: 28 March 2024
Tickets: Advanced £21.50-£25, doors £26.25-£30.50
Fireworks Factory, 11 No. 1 Street, SE18 6HD www.woolwich.works/events/buffy-revamped
Head from the aisle to the isles in the official Stock Aitken Waterman musical ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ featuring music from pop royalty including Kylie Minogue (I Should Be So Lucky), Rick Astley (Never Gonna Give You Up), Jason Donovan (Especially for You), Bananarama (Love In The First Degree) and more, all
intertwined in an original story of love, laughter and last-minute getaways.
Dive deep into the tale of Ella and Nathan – a star-crossed couple with wedding jitters and tropical dreams. Will their love sail smoothly, or are stormy break-ups ahead? Only time and tunes will tell.
Dates: 26 to 30 March 2024
Tickets: £26-£56
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Why did the old lady swallow a fly? We don’t know but The People’s Theatre Company do. And now you can, too, as they bring the world’s best-loved nursery rhyme –‘There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly’ – to life.
In this stage adaptation at Blackheath Halls, aliens from a distant planet have crashlanded on Earth and need your help to get home. But there’s a problem. Their rocket runs on stories, not fuel, and only the greatest story in the universe will be enough to save them. With a combination of live action, animation and puppetry, this retelling is sure to surprise and delight children – and nostalgic adults.
Date: 9 March 2024
Tickets: £16, £14 under-14s 23 Lee Road, Blackheath, SE3 9RQ www.blackheathhalls.com/ whats-on/there-was-an-oldlady-who-swallowed-a-fly/
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Well I think it’s about time I got back the next instalment of the history of the Kent Water Company. We have seen how it was set up in the late 17th century and operated for 100 years as the Ravensbourne Water Works. It then became the Kent Water Company in 1809 and in the last instalment I wrote about how deals with the military in Woolwich led to reservoirs being built which were specificity designed to supply water for fire fighting in the Dockyard, various army buildings and some parts of the Arsenal.
Brookmill water works had developed from being a water mill, and a corn mill still remained on the site. In the early 19th century steam engines were installed to pump water from the Ravensbourne to a growing population in Greenwich, Deptford and eventually Woolwich, as well as some areas to the west near Peckham and Rotherhithe.
On the advice of John Rennie a second pair of steam engines was installed at Brookmill in 1824. They were to have a very long life of over 100 years and I’ll come back to them another day. The company began a programme of installing iron mains around their area. In the 1839s William Morris was
passing it through a sand filter. This was first developed in London by the Chelsea Water Works in 1829. Kent Company constructed a filter bed and began to supply filtered water from 1844 – but they had to take out a mortgage on the works to be able to afford it. Later more filter beds and a settling reservoir were added and sited across Ravensbourne from the Brookmill works. The Company’s clean and sparkling water led to increased custom and eventual great prosperity.
physician, published a paper ‘On the Mode of Communication of Cholera’, in which he suggested that cholera was not transmitted by bad air but by a water-borne infection. Little attention was paid to him.
appointed as engineer to the Company. He would be followed by his son, also William, who was still in post when the Company was municipalised in 1904.
The first cases of cholera appeared in London in 1831 but it was not then recognised that it was caused by bacteria in the water supply. There was however growing concern at the quality of water supplied by some companies –although Ravensbourne water was generally seen as particularly good.
From around the early 19th century water companies began to install methods of cleaning river water by
A couple of instalments back I talked ahout the original pumping machinery here and how it was upgraded by John Smeaton. As improvements were done and more engines installed Smeaton’s original machinery was taken out of use, although it was said to be still perfect. For many years the various parts of this machinery were preserved at Deptford.
There were more cholera epidemics in 1837 and the government appointed Edwin Chadwick to undertake an enquiry info sanitation. He showed the link between poor living conditions and disease. Medical thinking of the day attributed infection to foul smelling air.
There was another cholera epidemic in 1848.
In 1849 John Snow a London-based
Many improvements were undertaken at Brookmill in 1850 following an enabling Act of Parliament which allowed them to increase capital to spend on engines, reservoirs and filters. The two filter beds were supplemented by a settling reservoir - this was on the same side of the river as the mill and eventually became ornamental water in the gardens. Further land was purchased at a great price.
In November 1850 the Kent Company agreed to pay the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers £5,000 to prevent them throwing the sewage of Sydenham into the small river Pool, a feeder of the Ravensbourne. They also paid the Board for a new sewer to remove all house drainage from the Ravensbourne.
It also appeared that the Kent Works engineer ‘has for some time past offered (the company’s water) to builders who are commencing new building districts’. I am currently writing a biography of the 19th century gas engineer, George Livesey, who
was based at the Old Kent Road gas works. The prosperity of that gas works was based around supplying gas to all the new areas of housing going up in south London. By getting the gas mains put in by builders while the estates and their new roads were being built, a lot of time and expense was saved - and the new residents in their new houses were all potential customers. It seems Kent Water was doing exactly the same thing with the water mains and all the new houses.
In 1851 a Government commission was set up composed of ‘three chemical gentlemen’ – Professor Thomas Graham FRS, W. A. Miller FRS, and Professor A. W. Hofmann FRS. Their report detailed the chemicals found in the River Thames water including the ‘hardness’ which they found objectionable. They also pointed out the problems of contamination in the Thames within the tideway and they said extraction from it should cease. Kent Company’s engineer, William Morris, said he was ‘well acquainted with their report’, Professor Graham had analysed the Kent Company water and reported it as ‘always delivered bright and clear.
In 1853 there was another cholera epidemic.
There is the famous story of how
John Snow removed the handle of the Broad Street pump thus isolating and removing a major cause of cholera and proving that the infection was water borne. There is even a Wetherspoon’s pub named after him. What had happened was that in August 1854 cholera broke out in a part of Soho. Within three days 127 people on or near Broad Street died. Many people fled the area but within a week more than 500 people were dead. Snow talked to locals and found they had all used the public water pump on Broad Street and he persuaded the local parish authorities to remove the handle of the pump and as infections subsided he had proved his point that cholera was waterborne from a specific source..
At around the same time
John Snow also did a study in Deptford where the water supply was from the Ravensbourne and supplied by the Kent Company. Around 90 people had died within a few days - but the river water was known to be clean, and there had been no previous outbreaks of cholera here.
Snow said: “I went to Deptford, to make inquiries respecting a most fatal outbreak of cholera .... being confined to two streets’. His investigations showed that this outbreak was caused by an accidental contamination of the drinking water, which had happened ‘in an unusual manner’. The two streets where about ninety deaths from cholera occurred in a few days used water supplied by the
Kent Water-works. Residents had told Snow that over the past few weeks the water generally smelt highly offensive. They had therefore thrown away a few pailfuls and only used what was pumped later - which was pretty clear. Snow concluded that some leakage had taken place
into the pipes - there were no sewers in these streets, and the refuse of all kinds saturates the ground in which the water pipes were laid.
I am not sure if that lets Kent Water off the hook or not. If it did they were soon on another very nasty hook indeed.
I wrote an article here last November which described how in 1857 a water works was built in Charlton by the Kent Company. The site they chose was in the Woolwich Road, slightly to the west of what was West Street, now Westmoor Street. They built a pumping station and installed a ‘Cornish’ engine – ‘pumping its daily supply of water from the chalk well on the margin of the marsh’. It was said the area was ‘entirely unfit’... ‘it is on the marsh and the water soaking from the tidal ditch is seen through the floors ... there are market gardens covered with the foulest manure ... and deep wide cesspools’. Cholera struck here in 1866 when it was declining elsewhere in London. In West Street and Harden’s Manorway ‘men were ill in great numbers, and several died within a few days. Men were sick at home and sudden deaths by cholera caused “inconceivable consternation among the women”. A reporter met ‘a middle-aged man coming out of one of the cottages sad; his wife is ill and their young lodger just died of cholera, a dead child has just been carried from the house’. A few doors on was ‘a decent woman in a clean house whose son, a young gardener, was attacked by cholera in the morning at six o clock and died before noon - his two boys were running about’...
Nearly every house in this district used water from the Kent Company. This came from a stand pipe which functioned for a short time every day; and people collect the water
in ‘vessels of various kinds, dirty or clean’. There was no water supply to outdoor toilets and in many cases the water had been cut off ‘because the landlords or the tenants have at some time or other neglected to pay the rate’.
It was said that this would not do because Woolwich ‘is one of the principal military stations of England. There is a large force of artillery, amounting to more than 5,006 men. The dockyard employs many men; the great arsenal of the empire full of artisans in Government employ.’ Thus ‘the health of the place in time of war is of vital importance’.
Meanwhile the almost new Kent pumping station was taken out of use because the well was ‘becoming contaminated with river water’.
This cholera outbreak in Charlton was a tragedy because the Kent Company had already found the solution which would make their water the cleanest in London. Why did they build this works to pump water from a well in such a place? Was it over confidence? Did these poor souls die because it was thought to be all right when it clearly wasn’t?
This terrible episode seems to have been the only time they were closely identified with an outbreak of cholera. Perhaps it taught them a lesson. Kent Company water becomes a standard of purity for all London and cholera would not be an issue in their area.
What a pity that it happened at all.
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Site Address: 42 PRINCE RUPERT ROAD, LONDON, SE9 1LS
Development: Replace existing upvc windows to front and rear elevations with new Upvc windows, including external white pvc beading bars, to match existing styles and sizes. Replace 1 No. rear garden door and 1 No. rear garden french doors with Upvc garden doors to match existing size. Replace existing front door with Climatec Period 1930`s Style authentic timber effect door to match existing size.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/0548/HD
Site Address: 12 PRINCE RUPERT ROAD, LONDON, SE9 1LS
Development: Replace existing upvc windows to front and rear elevations with new Upvc windows, including external white pvc beading bars, to match existing styles and sizes. Replace 1 No. rear garden door with Upvc garden door to match existing size. Replace existing front door with Climatec Period 1930`s Style authentic timber effect door to match existing size.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/0549/HD
Site Address: 67 PRINCE RUPERT ROAD, LONDON, SE9 1LA
Development: Replacement of existing front and rear windows with new Upvc windows, including external white pvc beading bars, and rear garden door to match existing styles and sizes.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/0567/HD
Site Address: 55 DICKSON ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6RE
Development: Replacement of existing front door with Climatec Period 1930`s Style authentic timber effect door to match existing size
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/0568/HD
Site Address: 37 WHINYATES ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6NL
Development: Replacement of existing front door with Climatec Period 1930`s Style authentic timber effect door to match existing size
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: Mr Lowe 24/0573/SD
Site Address: 95A ELTHAM HIGH STREET, ELTHAM, SE9 1TD
Development: Submission of details pursuant to Condition 8 (Written Scheme Of Historic Building Investigation) of planning permission 23/1387/L dated 01/11/2023.
Applicant: Mr Gjutaj 24/0578/HD
Site Address: 32 MEREWORTH DRIVE, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 3EE
Development: Replacement windows and doors to front and rear of property.
Conservation Area: SHREWSBURY PARK ESTATE
Publicity for Listed Building Consent
Applicant: C Talbot 24/0328/L
Site Address: 64 SHOOTERS HILL ROAD, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 7BG
Development: Amalgamation of two residential flats into one self contained flat (1 x 6-bedroom); demolition of existing garages to rear and replacement with gates,
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1)
VERNHAM ROAD PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich make’s this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out repair works.
2. The Order will come into operation on 11th March 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 5 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.
3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding, or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading), in Vernham Road outside 5.
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via the placing of the appropriate signage. Prohibitions remain in force; pedestrians are not affected, and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.
5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.
6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.
7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
Ryan Nibbs Assistant Director, Transport.
The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 12/02/24
(INTERNAL REF: PL/629/LA464318)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich make’s this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Network Rail who need to carry out inspections work.
2. The Order will come into operation on 6th March 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 1 night. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.
3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding, or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading), in Shawbrooke Road by the rail over bridge.
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via the placing of the appropriate signage. Prohibitions remain in force; pedestrians are not affected, and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.
5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.
6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.
7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
Ryan Nibbs Assistant Director, Transport.
The Woolwich Centre,
35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 08/02/24 (INTERNAL REF: PL/638/LA463277)
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1)
PLUMSTEAD ROAD PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich make’s this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out survey for leak detection.
2. The Order will come into operation on 4th March 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 1 night. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.
3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily allow vehicles to use the bus lane and prohibit vehicles waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading), in Plumstead Road just after the junction of Lenton Street (outside Passfield House).
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will not be diverted. Prohibitions remain in force; pedestrians are not affected, and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.
5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.
6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.
7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
Ryan Nibbs Assistant Director, Transport.
The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 07/02/24 (INTERNAL REF: PL/619/LA463101)
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) BORGARD ROAD PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich makes this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by BT who need to carry out WORKS ON THE OVERHEAD CABLES.
2. The Order will come into operation on 17 March 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 1 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.
3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding, or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading), in Borgard Road from the junction of Frances street to the junction of Eustace Place
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via the placing of the appropriate signage. Prohibitions remain in force; pedestrians are not affected, and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.
5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.
6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.
7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
Ryan Nibbs Assistant Director, Transport.
The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 21 February 2024
(INTERNAL REF: FN648 LA467188 /Lic. No: 70362)
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich make’s this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out repair works.
2. The Order will come into operation on 4th March 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 5 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.
3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding, or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading), in Heathwood Gardens outside 32.
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via the placing of the appropriate signage. Prohibitions remain in force; pedestrians are not affected, and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.
5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.
6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.
7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
Ryan Nibbs Assistant Director, Transport.
The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 05/02/24
(INTERNAL REF: PL/635/LA464108)
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich make’s this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out the installation of a super hydrant.
2. The Order will come into operation on 4th March 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 7 weeks. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.
3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding, or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading), in Crooms Hill at the junction of King George Street.
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via the placing of the appropriate signage. Prohibitions remain in force; pedestrians are not affected, and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.
5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.
6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.
7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
Ryan Nibbs Assistant Director, Transport.
The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 08/02/24
(INTERNAL REF: PL/642/LA423307)
ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and Highways Act 1980
The Greenwich (20mph Zone) (Various Roads) Order 202*
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) proposes to make the above-mentioned Order under sections 84, 124 and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.
2. The general effect of the Order would be to:
(a) impose a 20 miles per hour speed limit on motor vehicles for the entire length of the roads specified in Schedule 1 to this Notice;
3. NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that the Council proposes, under sections 90A-F of the Highways Act 1980 to:
(a) construct sinusoidal speed humps at the locations specified in Schedule 2 to this Notice; each sinusoidal speed hump would be an elevated section of carriageway with a maximum height of 100 millimetres at its highest point from the surrounding carriageway, extending across the full width of the carriageway and measuring approximately 3.7 metres in length, including the gradients.
4. A copy of the proposed Order and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the Orders and road humps, including maps and drawings, can be viewed by emailing traffic.team@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference 24-02 20mph Zone).
5. Further information may be obtained by emailing traffic.team@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.
6. Any person who wishes to object to or make other representations about the proposed Orders or road humps should send a statement in writing by 20th March 2024, specifying the grounds on which any objection is made by email to traffic.team@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference 24-02 20mph Zone).
7. Persons objecting to the proposed Orders or road humps should be aware that in view of current access to information legislation, this Council would be legally obliged to make any comments received in response to this notice, open to public inspection.
Assistant Director, Transport, Communities, Environment and Central, Royal Borough of Greenwich
Dated 28th February 2024
Abergeldie
SCHEDULE 1 – Roads subject to a 20mph speed limit
SCHEDULE 2 – Locations of proposed new sinusoidal speed humps
adjacent to No. 7 Crathie Road, outside Nos. 14, 32, 37 Scotsdale Road; Cedarhurst Drive: outside Nos. 17 and the boundary of Nos. 10/12 Cedarhurst Drive, adjacent to No. 150 Eltham Road and No. 459 Westhorne Avenue.
Charlton Athletic’s Captain George Dobson presented Charlton Athletic Community Trust’s (CACT) Anthony Quarm with the Premier League Community Captain award, recognising over five years of hard work across Premier League programmes.
Originally starting as a Premier League Primary Stars Officer and now working as a Diversionary and Mentoring Manager overseeing the Premier League Kicks and Inspires programmes, Anthony has gone from strength to strength working with CACT.
Premier League Primary Stars is an education programme which aims to inspire learning, promote an active lifestyle and develop important life skills. The programme benefits both young people aged 5-11 and primary school teachers, including Stephanie Baker who with Anthony’s help gained confidence in transitioning back to being a PE Lead at Alderwood School after returning from maternity leave and was named as a Premier League SuperStar.
Anthony explained what his work with CACT and the Premier League has involved so far:
“My journey at CACT started with me becoming a Premier League Primary Stars Officer. It was a role that delighted me straight away as it was an opportunity to work with young people, to inspire and be linked with the Premier League. I started off by coordinating and delivering so I was going to schools doing workshops.
“My role now is a progression from
where I was in terms of coordinating to now managing. I’m still involved with the Premier League as part of my role which is in the crime reduction side of Early Help and Prevention, I am overseeing Kicks and Inspires programmes.”
Reflecting on his work with CACT and the Premier League, Anthony said:
“The best part about my job has been that no day is the same. Any day looks different especially when you work with young people. They inform the decisions we make in terms of what we put on for them as it’s all to support them. So that has been the best part about it, just inspiring young people, seeing the positive changes and achieving such key outcomes.”
Carl Krauhaus, CACT’s Head of Early Help and Prevention, said:
“I’ve been managing Anthony for around 7 months now. He came in to work under our strand and had previously worked on Premier League projects through his role with Football and Sports Development overseeing Premier League Primary Stars.
“I think CACT and the Premier League are very lucky to have him as a member of staff delivering our programmes.”
We’re opening Our Greenwich (OG) phone booths to give residents the chance to tell us exactly how they think we’re doing.
“A lot can change in 12 months and we want to keep this conversation going. Over the next few weeks we’re going to be on high streets, outside stations and in community spaces listening to you, and showing you how we’ve been doing.
split into five themes, the plan was developed
split into five themes, the plan was developed after extensive engagement with residents, staff and partner organisations.
To mark one year of Our Greenwich, the council's joint vision for the borough made with residents, we’re going to be out and about over the next few weeks speaking to residents about our progress and getting feedback on what else we could be prioritising.
One of Our Greenwich’s 20 missions is to be better at listening to communities, and we’re putting that into action by setting up special new phone booths with a direct line to our OG voicemail.
“You can also leave your feedback by heading to one of our OG phone booths – I’m excited to hear what you have to say.”
Phone booths will be set up at The Woolwich, Eltham and Greenwich Centres, and we will also be visiting locations across the borough over the next month speaking to residents. Enventure Research will be polling 1,000 residents over the next few weeks to find out about their satisfaction with, and views about, the local area. Our Greenwich was adopted in January 2023. Based around a series of missions that are
Every message left will be listened to and used alongside other resident feedback to shape our annual progress report to make sure we’re heading in the right direction on all our key themes.
Councillor Anthony Okereke, Leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, said: Greenwich is exactly that, it’s ours. This borough belongs to everyone and we’ve been doing our best over the last year focus on what you told us was important.
Our Greenwich was adopted in January 2023.
To find out more about the corporate plan
Leave your feedback by March 18: ourgreenwich.commonplace.is
